Anyone having read my report & networking tutorial on the newly-released DoomPPC (the DoomGL port for non-3D-accelerated Pocket PC’s – it runs on any Pocket PC, not just ones with the 2700G and the GoForce GPU) knows the initial version(s) didn’t support Pocket PC versions prior to WM5.
Now, the developer of DoomPPC, Kokak, has released the WM2003SE-compatible version. It works just great on my WM2003SE Pocket Loox 720.
Note that WM2003 is not supported because of the operating system-level lack of landscape support.
It’s available on the official homepage of the game (direct link here).
As installing / configuring it is exactly the same as with the WM5-only version, please see the original tutorial for more information.
Another GREAT piece of news for you emulator fans after the recent release of Pocket Commodore 64 3.0 (see review HERE): version 0.14 of FinalBurn, without doubt the BEST arcade emulator, has just been released with many optimizations (most importantly, the CPS-3 core has been rewritten) and compatibility enhancements.
Please see THIS for a complete tutorial on using the emulator. As usual, you’ll need to download the executable HERE, from the first post. Note that you’ll only need to download burner0.014.rar; FinalBurn.rar contains the old, 0.11 version and fbaud.rar is only needed for desktop usage (if you plan to create cache files on the desktop). Also make sure that the ROM pack is still at its previous URL linked to from my tutorial.
I’ve thoroughly tested it on several of my Windows Mobile devices; most importantly, with the very resource-hungry, excellent platformer shoot’m’up Metal Slug 2, which did have sound emulation problems in previous versions. (The new, 0.14 version has some 68k optimizations too, in addition to the new CPS-3 core). While it’s on very few, high-end devices that the game is playable without any sound glitches, there is indeed some performance gain over the older versions. Note that with less resource-hungry games (for example, the CPS-1 / 2 vertical scroller 19xx-series) there won’t be performance problems at all, not even on less capable platforms.
WM2003 QVGA iPAQ 2210 (400 MHz PXA255): works better than on the TI OMAP-based HTC Vox / s710 running at 200 MHz; however, it too has sound problems
HTC Vox / s710 (200 MHz TI OMAP; haven’t tested it overclocked) running the latest (January 2008) factory ROM: major sound problems (better to switch it off entirely)
Dell Axim x51v with WM6.1 (see THIS), PXA270 at 624 MHz: minor sound problems on scenes with many opponents
HTC Universal with WM6.1 (see THIS) (PXA270 at 520 MHz): absolutely no sound problems, perfectly playable (Great news!)
HP iPAQ 210 with factory ROM & the official battery update, no other tasks running, PXA310 at 624 MHz: definitely worse than on the x51v / Universal, choppy sound most of the time (but, of course, better than on the old iPAQ 2210 or the HTC s710).
All in all, if you like quality (!!!!) 2D arcade games, you MUST give it a try. Again, don’t forget to read THIS for a tutorial. You may also want to read the WinMo Arcade Bible for more info on how FinalBurn compares to other arcade emulators and what makes it the best.
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Currently, SkyFire (see for example the roundup HERE for more info) isn't capable of running on non-phone devices: it doesn't even start. This means you can't run it on anything Windows Mobile not containing a phone: Dell Axims, pre-phone (or even current; for example, the 110 / 210 series) HP iPAQ's etc.
My hacks to the rescue! Download THIS archive and unzip the two DLL's into \Windows on your Pocket PC. Don't be afraid - they won't do any harm. They just make your Pocket PC pretend to be a phone. After this, SkyFire will work.
Cool I will have to try this on my Dell Axim X5
Hi everyone I have a HP Ipaq H4150, it has 400Mhz processor, and 32Mb ROM, but it's running on Pocket PC 2003, and bluetooth. While the HP Ipaq rx1950, has also 32Mb ROM and 300Mhz Processor but has Windows Mobile 5, and no bluetooth.
Is it possible to put the Ipaq rx1950 Windows Mobile 5 ROM on my Ipaq h4150. And if is not possible how do I modify it ? And also how do I make my bluetooth compatible ?
Thank you in advance.
Guys,
Is there any info whatsoever on putting Android on a HP IPaq HX2110?